A Woman Who Praised the September 11th Attacks Was Planning to Bomb the New York State Capitol — The FBI Stopped Her

She visited the Capitol grounds five times between mid-July and early August — scoping it out, taking photographs, planning the attack. She purchased bomb-making materials using $200 provided by an FBI confidential source. She was arrested before she could do anything with them.

She also said, when asked about her preferred target, she wanted to get President Trump: “Ideally it would be the White House with the president, but like, that’s an even harder job.”

This is the same woman who had social media accounts repeatedly suspended for violating platform terms of service. The same woman who posted “Praise be to Allah for September 11th” and “When I can migrate, I will poison these infidels.” The same woman who recorded a formal oath of allegiance to ISIS — a “Bayah” — and distributed it online.

She converted to Islam five years ago. Her accounts were flagged repeatedly. The FBI was watching. And when she made contact with a confidential source posing as an ISIS facilitator, they let the operation run until she provided the materials and provided the opportunity to arrest her.

This is what functional counterterrorism looks like. Patient, methodical, intelligence-driven — using the tools available under existing law to identify a threat, develop the evidence, and make the arrest before anyone gets hurt.

It also needs to be said plainly: this is the threat environment in which Mamdani’s New York City has been trying to arrest the Prime Minister of Israel, declaring opposition to ICE enforcement, and welcoming Hamas sympathizers into its political coalition. This is the threat environment in which the DSA’s candidate in Michigan campaigned alongside Hasan Piker — who celebrated Hamas after October 7 and said America deserved September 11th. This is the threat environment in which congressional Democrats are demanding that Medicaid stop sharing data with ICE and that federal law enforcement be constrained at every turn.